三教平心論 2.20

2.20

Zhu Hui'an said: "The Buddhists consider themselves to point directly to the human mind to see one's nature and become a Buddha, but in truth they do not know the mind and nature." Yet he failed to reflect that the Śūraṅgama Sūtra is profound learning on the mind and nature. Its words state: "External dusts and illusions deceive your true nature." It also says: "Losing the intrinsically wondrous, completely wondrous, luminous mind, the precious and luminous wondrous nature"—this is how it refutes the deluded mind. It also says: "If apart from external dusts there is a discriminative nature, that is your true mind." It also says: "I see the Tathāgata's hand opening and closing of itself, but it is not that my seeing-nature opens and closes"—this is how it clarifies the true mind. It also says: "Not knowing that the physical body, outward to the mountains, rivers, empty space, and the great earth, are all things within the wondrously luminous true mind"—this is how it clarifies that this mind is all-pervading and has nothing outside it. It also says: "Each knows of oneself that the mind pervades the ten directions, and that all things existing in all worlds are all the primordial, wondrously luminous mind of bodhi; distinctly knowing of oneself that one has obtained the original wondrous mind which abides permanently and is never destroyed"—this is how one realizes the empty, wondrous mind and enters the realm of the Buddhas. How could one say they do not know the mind and nature?